Kathleen Kennedy Townsend on Friday, one day after the two went missing in the Chesapeake Bay. Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr. (September ... After a disabling stroke on December 19, 1961 ...

The next day, a Sunday, Kennedy’s parents, the millionaire businessman Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., 55, and his wife Rose, 54, were gathered with some of their nine children in their Hyannis Port ...

Somewhat wary in his response to his eldest son, the lieutenant’s father, former Ambassador to the United Kingdom Joseph P.

J. would have named him after himself, Patrick Joseph, but his mother reversed the names so Joseph wouldn’t be immediately marked as Irish. Joe Kennedy came from a comfortable home; P.

Joseph Kennedy Sr. amassed a large fortune and became the first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as well as the U.S. Ambassador to the UK. Many of his nine children went ...